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Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics

2014 year, number 7

Software package for reconstruction of reflective properties of the Earth surface in visible and UV ranges

M.V. Tarasenkov1, V.V. Belov1,2
1V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, 1, Academician Zuev square, Tomsk, 634021, Russia
2National Research Tomsk State University, 36, Lenin Avenue, Tomsk, 634050,Russia
Keywords: Monte Carlo method, atmospheric correction, radiative transfer equation

Abstract

A software package for reconstruction of the distribution of the Earth surface reflection coefficient is described together with procedures developed to decrease considerably the computation time. On an example of a test region in the western coast of Africa, the results obtained by the suggested algorithm, algorithm of homogeneous correction, and standard MOD09 NASA algorithm are compared. The coefficient of correlation of the results obtained for the given test region using the new algorithm and the algorithm of homogeneous correction is 0.999; it is 0.984 for the given algorithm and the MOD09 algorithm.